The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1904, Page 6

i P “ 4 Poet to the Point. Epecial Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, F HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, Aug. 1L—Many an American familiar with Wardour street, Soho, has Iooked in valn this year for the following sign: Americans with Dc and Judgment Sound May view this sh terior, But those who are only *just lookin' around,” Please do #o from the exterior. J. B. (a Britisher)—God Save the King! The proprietor of the shop and au- thour of the verse is the pioneer of the entique dealers who now abound in Wardour street, and as very few Transatlantic visitors leave London without making a tour of the district, the poet always has recetved his share of shoppers. Season after season. he welcomed the sirangers, but as 9 per cent of them departed without spend- ing a penny the patient proprietor be- | gan to suspect that the Americans were a nation of “lookers around.” It was while the shopkeeper lay in bed onme might In his bachelor rooms the shop that the verse came to him. The previous day had been es- pecially productive of tourists with plenty of questions about every ar- ticle which struck their fancy, but with nclination whatever to buy, and the . . : hat | Pavers. It is®hne parish of St. Chris- ught struck the proprietor that| ., ;. jogtocks, founded some 700 | se lines, boldly written on a card| . ..o ago, none knows how or by end prominently displayed in the win- | dew, might give him some relief. First | thing next morning he wrote the sign, adding the patriotic words as a sort of flourish, and hung it up. The firs{ American that day was a | man who stopped, read the verse, and when the dealer looked out, asked: What will you take for the sign?” What do you want it for?” asked the shopkeeper. “To frame and hang up in my house,” replied the traveler, “as one of the niest things I ever struck.” Well,” the dealer replied, “if you give my man here a shliling you can have it. I can write another.” Before many weeks the dealer, be- sides selling a curio now and then, vwas doing a thriving business in signs and his fame spread ail over town. Then one morning came a letter written on the stationerys of the Grand Hotel: “if you do not desist,” it ran, “from insuiting my countrymen by exposing that sign about them in your window I'll give you an ounce of lead.” The signature was perfectly strange to the curio men, but thinking that the writer might be some fanatic capable of keeping his word, down came the sign and it has not been put back since. “It wasn't that I had anything epainst the Americans,” the shopman told me the other day,'“but when they come in here ‘just lookin® around,’ walk through, ask a hundred questions and lezve without even thanking me, you can’t wonder I thought the time was wested. “Probably they have pienty of money, 100,” he went on, “but they don’t come in with the intention of buying and I'm beginning to think that most of them that come over here wouldn’t kpow what to buy if they did—that's why I put in the ‘judgment sound.’ A lJittie party was here not long ago when I had a Dresden group on that table. I had just sold it to a man for 60 pounds (3300) and it stood there ‘waiting to be packed. One of the men in the party asked what it was and how much it was worth. I told him that as it was a very good article it ought to bring a round sum of money. Well, would you believe it, he said, *I'li give you two dollars and a half.’” Already this summer a number of ‘Americans have called to inquire about the eign and as several of these have been on theit first visit to London the €hop must be well known in some parts of the United States. The Dalai Lam:a. A London dispateh to the New York Bun gives some interesting facts upon the little known secrels of official life in Tibet. Colonel Waddell, a well known expert in Tibetan matters, de- scribes therein how since 1749 it had been the policy of Lassa up to the present reign to assassinate every Dajai Lama. In 1749, the Tibetans having massacred the Chinese at Lassa, the Chinese Emperor Chau- lung sent a punitive army and re- stored the Chinese ascendency and the infiuence of the Chinese Ambans was enormously increased. They kept the appointment of a Regent in their own hands and were the real driving pow- er of state. Colonel Waddell contin- xmlolerable tyranny of China the Na- tional party which has arisen in Tibet nd to whom Chinese interference ha: become too onerous and distasteful is credited with having saved the pres- ent Dalai from the fate of his prede- | cessors. Certainly he and his Govern- ment have now escaped from the Chi- | nese leading strings. ! *“When the present Dalai, who was lhorn in 1876, reached the tragic age | of 18, which is regarded as the limit of | s life, the young National party by strategem obtained the seal of office from the Regent, whom th |imprisoned in a monastery, wher | shortly afterward he died. The Dalai assumed sovereign power and deprived the Chinese Ambans of any | Isay in the Government. The latter ! 1ofliclals procured an indignant Chinese | edict from Peking, ordering that the | | Regent be reinstated and the seals re- | turned. . Meanwhile the Regent died, | or was murdered, and a new senior | | Amban came to Lassa and was bribed | heavily to let matters remain as they | {were. He suppressed the edict, while |at the same time leading the Peking | Government to believe that it had | | been complied with. | ‘“Afterward the opportunist young !Lama, profiting by China's loss of| prestige through her defeats by Japan | and afterward by the allied armies in 1900, openly refused to be guided by | | the Chinese and these have now to con- | fess how powerless they are in Tibet |and how contemptuously the Tibetans | | regard their authority, which is now | an empty farce. As recently as 1902 | |the Chinese Viceroy of the western| province of Szechuan, which adjoins | Tibet, had to ask Peking to send an |army to Lassa to make Chinese power | respected.” A Freak Parish. { The heart of London, the region about the Bank of England and the | Royal Exchange, whence go the| chief arteries of the country, s situated | in the strangest parish in the world. | There is no church, no municipal office and but one inhabitant, yet its value in a parochial and official sense is equal to that of many another parish in the city with its thousands of rate- whom, but still existent with all its| rights and dignities. There are close upon a dozen other parishes within the small circuit of | the civic boundaries of London proper | which possess but one or two inhabit- ants, but their history and lineage pale | in interest beside that of St. Christo- pher-le-Stocks. The church itself stood in Threadneedle street and was demc!- ished at the time the Bank of England | was enlarged in 1781. It therefore stood | | fronting the Mansion House, and from | many old records we must assume that it was a stately edifice, altered and | beautified after the ravages of Lon- don’s fire by Sir Christopher Wren | and embellished by gifts from wealthy | | city aldermen. We read of it first in the year 1392, when a rich merchant, one Richard | | Sherington, gave “many and divers | gifts to this church.” But the church | must have been in existence over a | hundred years prior to this date, for | without the gate stood a palr of stocks, | | for the punishment of those whose | offenses had been committed within the | city boundaries. But they were abol- | iched in the year 1282, when Edward I| was King and Henry Walis Mayor of | | London. At the time the tools derived from | London bridge were insufficient for its | upkeep and Mayor Walis, with the royal permission, established a “fish| and flesh market near by the Church of St. Christopher-le-Stocks.” The Stocks Market was designed to help London Bridge, the bridge-keeper hav- ing power to grant leases for market shops. The church was the spiritual resort of "all godly shopkeepers.” There is a lapse of time and then in the year 1472 we read of William Hampton, Mayor of London, who visit- ed the church frequently “for his soul's behefit, for he was a devout man and pious.” At‘his death he left money to St. Christopher’s, and ‘“was a great benefactor and glazed some of the win- | dows.” The next reference comes in the vear 1543, when Henry VIII was re- celving £46 15s 6d as rent for the market. There were twenty-five fish- mongers and eight butchers and the marketplace was 230 feet long by 108 feet wide. “On the east side,” writes | the old historian, “there were rows of trees, very pledsant to the inhabi- tants.” The vicar received the great- er part of his yearly income from the shopkeepers, “godly men and women, | given muchly to holy observances.” | 1In the year 1624 Robert Thorne died and left £4445 to the church “in charity and pious uses.” Accordingly a stately monument was erected to his memory. Later in the century the church was partly destroyed in the great fire and was repaired by Wren in 1671 and twenty-five years later was “again repaired and beautified at much cost to the parish.” In 1737 the stocks market was removed to Farringdon street, the region about the church being then of greater im- portance to merchants than shop- keepers. As commerce grew the Bank of England encroached upon the grave- yard, and so in 1781 the church was demolished. But in order perhaps to salve the consciences of the money- makers the parochial rights and dig- nities were still maintained. The gar- | den with the fountain within the Bank fof England marks the site of the bur- ues: ial ground. The last interment took “Henceforth the Dalai Lama always | Place a hundred years ago and was died young. He n attained his | that of “Jenkins, a bank clerk, 7 feet majority. No sooner had a Dalai|6 inches high. His body was allowed reached the age of 18 than he died in a mysterious manner, thus necessi- tating the accession of a new born in- fant and prolonging the Regent’s term of office. So a Regent was always in charge of the Government and he has worked in collusion with the Chinese Ambans to limit the life of the Dalai Lamas. ®0Of the last four Dalai Lamas one died at 11 and the other three at 18, “The present Dalai has been per- mitted to become an exception to this rule. As this was a blow against the to be buried within the bank to pre- vent temptation and possibility of dis- interment.” y So the old church ’;u gone, but its parish remains, embracing the open space in front of the Bank and Man- sion House, part of the Royal Ex- change and part of the Bank of Eng- land. One inhabitant it has and he has full rights of voting for Parlia- ment and all municipal councils. The valuation list is made out year by year and the governors of the Bank of B nd still pay heavily for the sins covetousness of their ancestors 125 years ago.—London Tid Bits, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 29 Ly 1904, "THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . + 4 « - .. . Address Al Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager +....Third and Market Streets, S. F MONDAY BUSINESS AND THE WHEAT CROP. RADE conditions were decidedly unsettled last week. The complete reversal in the wheat crop prospect since August 1, which the trade did not fully wake up to until a few days ago, has materially altered the complexion of business throughout the coun- try, and days mu;t elapse ere the new conditions and their efiect on general trade can be analyzed and de- termined. This damage to the wheat crop in the Northwest is It was observed during the first week in August, when those operators whose business it is to keep close watch over the grain situation c‘alled atten- tion to it and began to change their plans accordingly. It was not kept secret from anybody. Brokers’ and millers’ reports, the personal inspection of wheat regions by grain statisticians and the investigation of elevator corporations all gave the deterioration of the crop wide publicity. But it was received with skepticism. It was considered in many quarters a crop scare to manipulate quotations. Two weeks ago The Call pointed it out and reported that Wall street received the adverse reports with a smile and the remark that this was the time of the year for crop scares. The Call also printed a report from a party of investigators that “the trade would be stunned if it realized the extent of the damage.” It gave full accounts of the increasing outcry of “rust.” All this went on for about ten days, when the wheat trade woke up to it. Then the excitement began and has been raging ever since, with the market extremely nervous and quotations rising with unusual rapidity. Europe added its fuel to the flames, as pointed out in this column at the time, by reducing its c¢rop estimates all along the line. Now everybody realizes that there is trouble in the spring wheat districts and that the rust infection has extended from the three States—Minnesota and the Dakotas—into Manitoba. N How much these reports are exaggerated, if at all, re- mains to be seen. Of course the bull speculators will magnify them all they possibly can. But there has been damage. Even the Government bureaus, always ex- tremely conservative, affirm that and are reducing their estimates of the crop. But the harvest alone will render the final verdict. When the threshing returns are in we shall know all about it, and they are coming in now. Pages could be written upon the new trade conditions created by ,fa]ling off in the volume of that wheat crop, which @ave such brilliant promise a month ago. Business currents have been diverted into new channels, railroad traffic plans and prospects have undergone radical changes, a new aspect has been given to the New York stock market, export calculations are being revised and new sets of figures arranged in many commodities. Of course, all this unsettles trade. It makes some lines feverishly active and stuns others. The situation pre- viously established is now afloat like a stray balloon. It has left the prosaic ground and is a feather in the air. Until it gets settled again and on a determined basis there will be more or less uncertainty. The corn crop also had its specter for a day or so in the form of dry weather, which threatened to develop into a drought in the belt, but the rains that damaged the wheat yield extended into the corn regions and nothing new. |nipped this new trouble in the bud. They were a two- edged sword, detrimental to_one crop and beneficial to another. Tt is indeed an ill wind that blows no good. New York regards the new conditions in the Northwest with equanimity. The West sees nothing but grain, general farm ‘produce and provisions. But New York has the whole country under its eye. The disaster to the | wheat crop is something affecting one section of the country. There are other sections and other crops. Out of them all it strikes a general average, and that average is favorable. Hence Wall street, though naturally in- fuenced more or less by the new conditions in the West, is governed by the general average of the country, and the market stands about the same. Money is the weather vane on which the New York eye is fixed, and as the vane still points to fair weather New York is satisfied with the present outlook. The fact is, the country has so much ready cash that it can handle all its vast business and leave an enormous amount in vault untouched. Under this condition it is needless to get excited over a loss of 15 per cent—Io per cent a week ago—in the wheat crop. A prominent financier in New York thus sums up the crop situation: Increase in value of cotton crop, $8o,- 000,000; increase in value of corn crop, $100,000,000; in- crease in value of oat crop, $30,000,000; total increase, $210,000,000; deficiency in wheat, $75,000,000; net increase, $135,000,000. This is the cold-blooded way in which New York regards the situation, and it is the right way. The bank clearings made a more favorable showing for the week, recovering to some $1,875,000,000, the loss from the corresponding week in 1903 being only 2 per cent. Half the important cities showed a gain. The failures were 226, against 238 in 1903. Conservatism prevails in the great industrial staples. Cotton goods buying is sluggish and is not responding to the reductions in bleached goods, as wholesalers are ex- pecting lower quotations later on. There is a fair demand for woolen goods, but the raw wool is so high that manu- facturers are proceeding with caution. A number of tanneries have closed down on account of the scarcity in hides caused by the Western packing-house strike, and leather has gone up half a cent. A wholesale reduction in some steel prices, notably wire nails, is announced, and uncertainty as to how far the reductions will extend re- stricts buying. In addition, several pools in iron and steel products are reported shaky, hence the, iron trade is still far from being in'a stable condition. Provisions still lack snap at Western packing centers. Reports from these points say that the acuteness of the strike is over and that conditions in the industry are now getting back to the normal, and the strike itself has lost importance under the overshadowing infiuence of the wheat shortage. It is still more or less of a factor, however. Railway earnings for the first week in August show a gain of 1.4 per cent over last year, an agreeable change from the loss lately exhibited from week to week. Conditions in the three Pacific Coast States remain about as before stated. The sectional character of the weather during the first half of the year has produced large crops in some sections and deficient erops in others. The net result on the whole is satisfactory. Prices for the majority of farm and orchard products are still above the normal, and what the farmer loses in one line he more than makes up in another, so the average is ex- ceptionallly high and no serious complaints are heard from any quarter. As for San Francisco, the steady stream of immigration from the West continues, and being incidentally augmented by the coming conclave of the Knights Templar, is bringing a good deal of new money into the town and gives it a bustling and cheerful aspect i ’ HOSPITABLE FRATERNITIES. HE time is opportune to consider the part that Tfraternal organizations have taken t& establish the reputation of California hospitality. Numerous rep- resentatives of two famous orders are about to be enter- tained in this city. The general public of California will throng to see them, and many persons who are not members of either of the two orders will contribute financially to make their sojourn agreeable. The task of caring for the personal comfort and enjoyment of the visitors will fall to Odd Fellows and Knights Templar. They will unquestionably heighten among their frater- nal associates from abroad the esteem in which Califor- nia is held. From their own means and exertions they will strive. - California’s name as a generous host has been made famous very largely by the convening of national assem- blies of various kinds in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Individuals, from the days when the owner of a placer mining claim by a Sierran watercourse divided willingly and gladly his waning store of provisions with the new- comer, have welcomed the stranger in California. In- numerable friendships, based upon bestowing and re- ceiving courtesies at the hands of the men and women of this State have cemented more closely the ties that bind together the American people scattered over the breadth of a continent. As the less is included in the greater, the hospitality of individuals has been even more effectively employed collectively by fraternities than it could be by person; acting singly. The uses of large sums of money in the hands of ex- ecutive committees and the greater facilities procurable through fraternal agencies have made' it possible to de- vise and carry out plans for entertainment on a very Jarge scale. From these considerations it clearly is manifest that a debt is due to the fraternal orders and to all associa- tions, secular and religious, in California that have vol- untarily assumed the burdens with the pleasures of greeting and providing for the comfort of thousands of affiliated strangers simultaneously. If San Francisco is regarded as “a show city” and if its place as such is to be maintained, the effort and credit must alike be at- tributed to organizations. California has been for many years proud of its frater- nities. In the mining days members were to be found in every camp. Now they are enrolled by thousands. By them works of mercy and charity have been wrought in countless instances. Their pledges ar¢ for brother- hood and sisterhood. Their aims are noble. By them love and its genial handmaiden hospitality have been fostered. They have benefited the State morally, so- cially, financially. More than any others they have ad- vertised California. Hospitable among their own mem- bership, they have impartially extended the right hand of welcome to all comers. In accepting the Populist nomination for the Presi- dency Watson declared that in the consideration of na- tional problems all Democrats are hypocrites, but Re- publicans have the saving grace of being honest foes of the principles hjs party represents. If Watson be sin- cere in wishing well for the nation his own assertion should convince themqthat the cause he espouses is lost in error and must fail T keying again with American affairs, and is a candi- date for a hard call down by our Government. He is a sample of the predatory chiefs who fight and steal their way to the front in some of the Latin-American States. As his own people dare not acquire anything worth his while to steal, he proposes to sustain his lav- ish ways by the robbery of foreigners. His experience with the powers that through blockade haled him into the Hague court has taught him no prudence. His scizure of the Amerian Asphalt Company's property has no excuse and is incapable of defense. One of his courts, in a proceeding ex parte, pretended to issue a process for executive spoliation of the Amer- icans. He ordered the court to do this. The Americans were not notified of any suit, had no day in court, no op- portunity for defense, and were surprised when a na- tional ship appeared with an armed force and ousted them from their property. Now the Monkey pleads that as it is a judicial pro- ceeding he cannot interfere! It is remembered that when the builders and owners of the railway between Porto Cabello and Caracas went into court in defense of their rights, a Supreme Court justice decided in their favor, and was immediately thrown into jail by Castro, who at once appointed a judge in his place who was ordered to reverse the decision and did so! Of course with that history one understands the extreme delicacy of the Monkey about interfering with the courts! The United States will probably not wait long for him to over- come this sensitiveness, but wi]l send a! man-of-war to oust the usurpers of American property rights, whether the Monkey likes it or not. But the incident is diséouraging. Those States are our neighbors. They share with us the American hem- isphere. We protect their sovereignty and territorial integrity against the world. We risked war with Great Britain in defense of Venezuela, but our attitude does fot result in teaching them stability of government and the protection of the rights of person and property. It is probable that they will never have civil order until we give them a severe lesson, or permit some other power to administer it. VENEZUELA AGAIN. 3 HE Monk;y of the Andes, Castro, has been mon- The welcome announcement has been made that Sena- tor Fairbanks will pay us a visit before he is elected Vice President of the United States. That we will be pleased to see him and have him as our guest goes with out saying. While it has not been the fortunate destiny of California to see a Vice President of the republic a statesman from within her borders, the next thing for congratulation is to plead the cause of our hospitality to one who comes from abroad. As a military man the university cadet, collectively considered, has fallen far below the standard fixed by the director, of his soldierly education. In the eyes of the supervising critic the Berkeley student soldier is stoop shouldered, narrow lunged, shuffling of stride and negli- gent of carriage. Yet reform speaks its own suggestion. Give the boys the same chance to win laurels on the parade ground as they have on the gridirén and the thing is~done. { —_—— - Berlin is reveling in the possession of a horse that un- derstands music and can solve disturbing problems in mathematics. If the animal can only make logical deduc- tions necessary to the proper punishment of the perpetra- tors of some music that it probably has heard as well as we and will wreak vengeance such as we would wish to inflict it will be lauded as one of the wonders of the age. | who had caused the rescue appeared. o 0 “Shanghai’s” Papa. A little book just published by the police department from the pen of Policeman Maurice Behan contains many little human interest stories per- taining to the force. The book is en- titled “The Strange Doings of Shang- hat Brown.” One of the stories in the volume is as follows: “Shanghai” Brown was cited to ap- pear before the Board pf Police Com- for duty. Brown, with his usual facility for put- with “the goods.” Brown's defense was that he was sit- ting up with his sick fatner and could not leave him until the nurse came. | Brown had not seen his father for twenty vears and did not know where he was, but he had_to have a defense. “What kind of a looking man is your | father?” asked a dublous commissioner. | “Oh, he's an old man wrth whiskers down to here,” answered the man charged, at the same time indicating by the seventh button on his vest the length of his dad's dermal appendage. “Put the case over for one week in | order that the officer may produce his “ father here as a witness,” thundered the chairman. Any other man would have been in a quandary at this sudden turn of af- fairs, but Brown was ready for any emergency. Going home that night on a car, Brown met a fellow officer. “Bill,” he sald, “vou’ve always been a good friend to me; help me to find a bum with whiskers down to his walst.”. Another car was passing at the time, and Brown spotted his man— a lean looking individual with the nec- essary appendage. In a bound he was on the other car. “For $5 you are my father,” he cried to the astonished bum, at the same time dislodging him from his corner. The bum didn’t understand, but saw booze in sight and dismounted from the vehicle with Brown. A few jolts at a neighboring wet goods parlor fixed the deal.” The bum pocketed $2 50; the rest he was to get after the next meet- ing of the Board of Police Commis- sioners. 5 “Shanghal” and his new-found dad appeared at the next meeting of the board. “Are you this man's father?” asked the commissioners. “Dat’'s what I am,” answered the subsidized Brown. ‘“Me boy George is a fine lad; so kind to his old father.” The scene was touching. Brown wept; and as he and his “father” walked from the presence of the au- gust body, exonerated, Chairman How- ell gazed after them with a question of doubt still lingering in his eyes. A Bride at Bargain Rate. A certain missionary in one of the rescue homes in local Chinatown is disgusted, and declares that she in- tends to retire and give up the work of saving souls. All on account of lit- tle “Dan Cupid,” who has been using the mission as a means to further his ends¢ One day not long ago a neatly dressed Chinaman entered the mission and informed the lady in charge that in & certain alley in Chinatown there was a slave girl who wished to Tun away to the mission and study Chris- tianity, but was unable to do so on account of her owner, who was nego- tiating her sale for $2000 to an old gambler. - The next day the missionary made her appearance in the alley, and with the help of an interpreter and a po- lice sergeant rescued the girl, who took up her abode in the mission. She be- came an interested pupil and soon em- braced Christianity. About the same time the Chinaman This time he wished to join the church himself. He had not been a member long before he came forward with the request for a wife, which was granted. Among the names suggested was that of the rescued girl, and he chose her. Her consent was the only condition and, needless to say, that was easily obtained. - The wedding was not delayed. The time taken to deceive the missionaries had been too long for the loving hearts. They were united by the mission pas- tor, after which they left for a joss- house and were married by the priest in real Chinese fashion. The last the missionaries heard of them they were living in the heart of Chinatown and were worshiping joss, even more devoutly than their neighbors. Later it was discovered that the Chinaman, who was really the girl’s lover, but had not sufficient funds with which to purchase her, had used the missionary people in this shrewd manner. He got the giri he loved without paying the $2000. But the mis- sionary has lost her confidence in the yellow race. Sam Houston’s Squaw. J. S. Holden, secretary of the Edito- rlal Association of Indian Territory and editor of the Fort Gibson Post, has added some exceedingly interesting facts to the story of Sam Houston and { missioners on a charge of reporting late The case was called ana I ting up a feasible defense, was on deck | sthe ancient - neath the cedar shade at Wilsons Rock. During that time wonderful transfor- mations have taken place in this Terri- tory, now largely the abode of the white men and civilization—a wonder- ful change, indeed. And now those re- mains are about to be removed to Fort Gibson, in the United States National Cemetery. The indeription on the tomb will read as follows: Sacred to the Memory of TAHLIHINA, Cherokee Wife of GEN. SAM HOUSTON, Liberator of Texas. Died at Wilsons Rock. C. N., In the Year 1838. Removed to Fort Gibson May 30, 1905. —Kansas City Journal. Democratic. The following story from the London Westminster Gazette indicates that our cousins across the water are as appre- clative of simon-pure democratic ideals as we ourselves: “President Roosevelt's sons are evi- dently chips of the old block, as a story respecting Archie Roosevelt shows. A certain fine lady was calling at the house of one of Archie’s schoolmates when Archie happened to be in. On be- ing told that the lad was the son of the President and attended a public school the visitor began questioning him about his studies. Archie stood this well enough, but presently the lady ventured on more delicate ground. ‘Do you like a public school?” said she. ‘Don’t you find that many of the hoys there are rough and common?- Then Archie showed his training and uncon- sclously administered something of a rebuke to the would-be aristocrat. ‘My papa says,” he answered, ‘that there are tall boys and short boys, and good boys and bad boys, and those are the only kind of boys there are.’ ™ Mozart's Skull. A visitor who has made the pligrim- age from Bayreuth points to the great contrast between the noise and bustle of the Wagner festival and the small and old-fashioned Mezart house in the middle of Salzburg. It is with a feel- ing of respect, he says, that one climbs the three flights of stairs and enters the room where Mozart was born. All pictures, the two old pianos and many relics belonging to the composer take one back a hun- dred years. The only jarring note in this harmonious association of mem- orles is that Mozart's skull is in a glass case in the center of the room: all that remains of him, since no one could ever distingulsh his body in the mase of remains in the common paupers’ grave wherein he was buried In’ Vienna, ’ Parsees and Their Wives. The Parsee, or Zoroastrian come munity of Bombay, who number un- der 95,000 in all, are threatened with disintegration by Western and Chris- tian influences. Their wealthy young men visit and reside in London, Paris and other European cities, where they frequently take to themselves Euro- pean wives. Three cases have just oc- curred of Parsees thus marrying Christians, one marrying a Jewess and one a French woman. There are great dissensions among Parsees in India as to whether the non-Parses wives should be received as proselytes.— London Globe. Answers to Queries. A NAME-B., City. The name of Mme. Calve, the opera singer, is pro- nounced as if written “Cal-vay.” MAMIE KELLY—O. S, City. The killing of Mamie Kelly, a 14-year-old school girl, In San Francisco, occurred November 10, 1886, PAWNBROKER—G. E. J. A, City. The Penal Code of California says that a pawnbroker who charges more than 2 per cent on loans is subject to prose- cution for misdemeanor. HOMF. WEDDING—Subscriber, City. 1t is laid down in the Lecks on etiquette that at a home wedding the bride stands at the left of the groom, and the clergyman. minister, priest or Jus- tice faces the audience, and the bridal pair face the officiating individual. his Cherokee wife. We copy this ex- tract from Mr. Holden's article on the subject: “Wilsons Rock is a beautiful spot on the Cherokee side of the Ar- of Skinbayou Creek. Here in a cedar grove lived in a log cabin with his Cherokee wife the former Governor of Tennessee and distinguished general. It was from here he started on horseback of her. He wrote to have her join him in Texas, which she declined, saying Cal. There is no special uniform for the President of the United States. Even as commander in chief of the army and navy, if he should parade kansas River, on a hill near the mouth : 28 such, he would be attired in a ci- vilian suit. IT IS TRUE—A. C. ;l Sacramento, Cal. The answer recently given in this department to the effect that there is for Texas, of Which State he became | 10 "°8ular line of sieamers that makes the liberator and first Governor. Tahli-| TIPS from San Francisco to the East hina (his wife) is said to have been the | 27°U"d the Horn is true, but there are most beautiful woman in the Cherokee steamers that pass through the Straits tribe, and Houston was not ashamed | °& Magellan from San Francisco eagt. Masters of vessels will not make the dangerous trip around "i’ Horn when she was an- Indian and would not be| (DY €an make the safer one through happy among his white associates. It| !¢ Straits. appears he really loved her and re- solved to see her again in abode had not death interven “A half-century and more than one score years have gone since the fair form of Tahlihina was laid at rest be- ——— Townsend's California Glace fruits in er forest | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ——————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public m-’:z the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), Cai- ifornia strest. Telepkone Main 1043, *